This is a sad moment in America. The issue is not who will back down, moderates or progressives? The question is: Do we truly love and care for the 140 million poor and low-wealth people in this country?
Do we care about workers who need living wages, the sick who need healthcare, the children who need education?
The first question should not be how much can we afford to spend? We have the money. We spent $21 trillion in war since 9/11.
The first question should not be how much can we afford to spend? We have the money. We spent $21 trillion in war since 9/11.
The question is, how much do we care about promoting the general welfare of all people? How much do we care about the poor who are made poor by policy decisions? How much do we care about those from the mountains of Appalachia and the delta of Mississippi?
This is what @RepJayapal is saying: political platform promises were made to lift from the bottom, not to argue about who votes in middle. 140 million poor and low-wealth Americans in the wealthiest nation in the history of the world. 140 million.
This is about the 87 million uninsured or underinsured. The 32 million who make less than $15/hr. The 700 people who die every day from poverty. This is about addressing the poor & low-wealth people who do the most, have suffered the most, and died the most during COVID.
We should be focused on doing more, not less, and we should surely not be discussing doing nothing.
If our politics has so separated too many Republicans & Democrats from the hurt & pain & faces of the poor & low-wealth ppl of this nation, then our trouble is far bigger than Trump’s lies, and we’ve been deceived about what it really means to be a great and decent nation.
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